Keir Starmer says he was ‘distracted’ by Middle East and Nato during welfare rebellion
While Sir Keir Starmer admitted that his focus was on issues related to NATO and the Middle East, a rebellion on welfare cuts seized his party at home.
The Prime Minister faced a Backbench rebellion on the proposed disability benefits deductions. Some 126 Labor Party Backbencher signed a change to stop the universal credit and personal independence payment bill when faced with the first Commons barrier on July 1.
Sir Keir, who answered questions about what was going wrong during the difficult week, demanded full responsibility for the welfare U -return.
“All these decisions are my decisions and I am taking their ownership,” he said. Sunday Times. “Leadership, when things go well, you get praise; you carry the box when things don’t go well. I take responsibility for all decisions taken by this government. I don’t talk about the staff and I prefer it if everyone doesn’t.”
This continued first at the G7 meeting in Canada and then at a NATO summit in the Netherlands, rather than internal issues. He also had to deal with the US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Orum I put this as a context instead of an excuse: I focused on what happened in NATO and the Middle East all the weekend. ” “I turned my attention completely to him [the welfare bill] When I return from NATO on Wednesday night. Obviously, in the first part of this week, we were busy making sure that NATO was successful. “
“From the moment I returned from the G7, I entered a Cobra meeting directly.
The government’s original package restricted the PIP compliance, the main disability payment in the UK, and cut off the health of the universal loan to save $ 5 billion per year until 2030.
The government offered a series of concessions to labor rebels as discontent among the Backbenchers surrounding the welfare cuts, but warned that the Prime Minister’s concessions to get rid of the defeat of the first Great Commons, but the campaigns warned that these concessions could continue to cause problems.
Instead, while PIP conformity changes will be applied only to new plaintiffs in November 2026, the existing buyers of the health elements of the universal loan will be the real protection of their income.
Baş Rebel Dame Meg Hillier accepted the Prime Minister’s U-transformation as a “positive result ,, while Sir Keir was warned that the protection decision from the upcoming prosperity deductions from the upcoming prosperity deductions, which is currently called to maintain the proposed deductions.
Disability philanthropy Mencap warned that changes will create a “generation of generation of quality for learning people”.
Decision Foundation Think DEPS At the beginning of this week, the Prime Minister’s U-transformation The benefit deductions and winter fuel payments have made a hole of £ 4.5 billion to be filled with “great probability” with tax increases in the autumn budget in public financing.
